Comic Riffs: February 22, 2009 - February 28, 2009

We're talking with ED STEIN, longtime political cartoonist for the Rocky Mountain News. Make that the dearly departed Rocky Mountain News. After 31 years in his position, Stein learned yesterday that the Denver newspaper would print its final edition today,...

Last October, when "Doonesbury's" Rick Redfern took a buyout from his Washington Post, Comic Riffs wrote an "Appreciation" of our inkstained hero. Today, the real Washington Post hopes good ol' Rick (now a fellow blogger like ourselves) can appreciate an...

Your nominees are in, the ballots have been counted and the accountants of PriceWaterhouseWatterson&SparkySchulz are prepared to announce the cartoonists who 'Riffs readers believe are most worthy of the Reuben -- aka cartooning's Oscar. Here are the Ten Contenders for...

Everybody loves a parade, it's said, but consider how much more compelling it becomes when the grand marshal, on life support, is motoring past in an ambulance. Or, if you believe some news reports, in a hearse. Such is my...

Morning, Cartoon Nation... Quick, unfiltered takes on the morning's funnies: All week, something about ZITS -- and Jeremy's attraction to his tutor -- has unnerved me. At last, gazing at the strips, I've put my finger on it: Under all...

Morning, Cartoon Nation... Every so often, the planets align, the cosmic tumblers click into place and "Mark Trail"-- all all too commonly misunderstood as mere bizarro-perspective stilted-dialogue strip about a suspiciously chaste eco-photojournalist -- pauses to allow a rare, raw...

As an artist who myself, when under fire, has reflexively assumed the Official Editorial Cartoonist's Defensive Crouch, I feel compelled to reach out to the New York Post's controversial political cartoonist to advise -- nay, implore -- him with seven...

As some call for the head of New York Post cartoonist Sean Delonas, insisting that he never work in that town again -- much less anywhere, amid the paper's "partial apology"-- it's intriguing to step back to think of hard-hitting...

Morning, Cartoon Nation... Early every year, my ballot would arrive in the mail. And each time, for several years running, I would write in my vote for the cartoonist-of-the-year: Namely, several of my boyhood cartooning idols from "MAD" magazine. From...